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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is reportedly taking advantage of the World Bank and IMF meetings in Washington, D.C. by inviting numerous banking executives to a 3 pm EDT gathering on Monday. The meeting comes after the morning's announcement of preliminary details of the Treasury's rescue package.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the following executives have been invited: Ken Lewis, CEO of Bank of America; Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase; Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs; John Mack, CEO of Morgan Stanley; and Vikram Pandit, CEO of Citigroup.

Details of the meeting are unknown, but an anonymous source told the Journal Paulson is expected to discuss the government's plan to purchase equity directly from financial firms, a move taken to recapitalize banks and restore confidence in the markets.

Earlier in the day, Neel Kashkari, interim head of the new Office of Financial Stability, which will oversee the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, discussed details of the program. He said the Treasury would be using its full resources to ensure the program's success, and that it was developing seven policy teams to deal with different aspects of the rescue as quickly as possible.

"A program as large and complex as this would normally take months - or even years - to establish. We don't have months or years," Kashkari said. "Hence, we are moving to implement the TARP as quickly as possible while working to ensure high quality execution."

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